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Russian Premier Viktor Chernomyrdin and Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov, left, during a ceremony for signing documents on cooperation in the social, economic and financial fields between the Federal Centre and the Chechen Republic on May 12, 1997. International terrorist and ringleader Aslan Maskhadov was killed on March 8, 2005, in a special operation in the village of Tolstoy-Yurt in Chechnya. (KEYSTONE/ITAR-TASS/Str) === ===